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photocopy

[foh-tuh-kop-ee] / ˈfoʊ təˌkɒp i /
NOUN
mechanical image produced from a copier; making the image
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They have to rely on patients to recount their medical histories or wait hours or even days for another clinician to send a DVD, a fax — or a photocopy.

From MarketWatch May 4, 2026

Down the sidewalk, I mailed packages for our boys at the pack-and-ship shop, and stopped to photocopy teaching materials for my weekly state-prison volunteering gig.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Her Ylfa is a glamorous foodie — herself a photocopy of Tilda Swinton’s meat-loving tycoon in “Okja.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2025

Predock had a photocopy of the bill in his pocket — always ready to unfold it and strike up a conversation about the importance of Desmond and the museum project.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2024

The newspaper article is in my scrapbook now, along with a photocopy of the check from Mr. Nagahachi.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

A simple way to imagine this is like making two photocopies of a document but accidentally placing both copies into the same folder instead of separating them.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

"They can't even afford to make photocopies, never mind plane tickets and lodgings," said lawyer Valeria Carreras, who represents 34 families of victims.

From Barron's Mar. 3, 2026

They often have to submit copies of their diplomas, typically as photocopies by mail.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

Before Lurz left to make photocopies, with the bald man close behind, he handed me a stack of photos and documents to look at while he was gone.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

The bank photocopied the check so I read it.

From MarketWatch Apr. 27, 2026

The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

In fact he was so worried about the "bizarre" prescriptions he was being handed by patients he photocopied 250 of the most suspicious.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2025

She had photocopied the form four times, clipped everything together and tucked it into a large FedEx envelope, along with referrals, letters and a chronology of her husband’s sickness.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2024

The next morning, a man came to our door with a photocopied letter.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2024

After the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was found guilty in 1984 of illegally photocopying the music of a religious composer, the U.S.

From Seattle Times Apr. 26, 2024

"It was as if someone had followed me around for a year, stealing my jokes, copying my mannerisms, photocopying my world-weary yet witty view of life…" he wrote.

From BBC Oct. 29, 2023

During that battle, one of the brawlers is clad à la Uma Thurman in a white button-down, black slacks and black bangs — Manzoor’s bring-it-on taunt to audiences who might say she’s photocopying Quentin Tarantino.

From New York Times Apr. 27, 2023

I’d done some research on multiple sclerosis in the Princeton library, photocopying medical journal articles to send to my parents.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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